Top 472 Poetry Quotes

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?